We were getting all settled into the new hotel, and the week that God brought as a miracle was underway. After traveling so much and for so long, the last thing that I wanted to do was move again and go through the fire of faith testing for survival.
During that week, God encouraged me to start immsersing my faith to believe in His promised provisions to pay for another two weeks. He also gave me a Divine strategy of how to get through the warfare that was against me during that time, using strawberries. Because when you are walking in God’s plans by faith, there is bound to be enemy resistance.
When God shows me strawberries, I know the key to opening up the support that we need is through giving. Planting seeds of support to others, even though my needs were extremely deserpate, was an act of warfare.
It was an act of warfare because it shows that I trust God’s generous support to come through, no matter how impossible it seems or looks. A strawberry has over 200 seeds on the surface, and it is very symbolic of planting a seed to someone else, and getting it multiplied back tremendously.
There was more that God was requiring of me than to just plant seeds of blessings to others, He was also teaching me how to avoid “plant rot” that could damage the fruit before it comes out.
The kind of plant rot that God was teaching me about was the gray mold that spreads though the plant and kills the fruit before it even comes out. The gray mold comes from excess moisture. In this situation, the excess moisture was referring to drowning in fears, worries, and needs.
God was saying to cast all of my needs, fears, and worries to Him….and to leave them in His care. This was symbolic of letting the soil drain out the excess moisture, to prevent the flooding of troubles to come. Just as in Psalm 55:22, Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).
The other thing that I needed to do was to exercise my faith, by giving God my requests, and then imagining, hoping, and feeling like they were done. That was following the Mark 11:24 strategy, Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
The problem was I had no money to “plant a financial seed” to anyone else, so I was trapped with no way to start receiving a harvest. So I bowed before God and I asked Him to send me a blessing so I could plant a seed to show His love and generosity to someone else.
He sent me $50 that same day….and as hard as it was to do (because I needed food and so much more)….I gave the entire $50 to who God placed in my heart. Planting that seed started a stir of blessings to come my way, and I started to receive money from God in small increments.
When each one came in, I would give God the first big chunk of it…and not just a modest 10 percent, but I would show God my worship to Him, by giving generously, to trust in His generosity to flow back to Me.
Because it says in 2 Corinthains, that God is generous to supply the seed, and He is EVEN more GENEROUS to cause us riches to flow to us in all directions, that we may be made generous. He makes us blessed and a blessing.
Sowing seeds of financial gifts to others is a way to move in an abundant mindset and to wage war against the lack, poverity mindset. Many will cling to what they have out of fear, but God has promsied that He is even more generous to us when we trust Him in such a way.
So I kept sowing seeds. But I also gave God my request. I had prayed that I could pay 2 more weeks at the room, so that we could have some time to rest up before the next big adventure.
During that time, it was hard, because I was tired to being stretched in this way for so long. I wanted this to be over, and I found myself constantly having to pour out my worries, doubts, needs, and fears to God. My faith was practically on life-support, and I just had to choose to believe, even though I barely could find it within myself. The pressing was pushing out my old self of fear and unbelief, and allowing Christ to rise up within. It was much harder than it would seem, and yet the easiest thing to just get out of my own way, and allow God to take the center stage.
I pressed into to God with faith in His power for a few days, as I humbled myself in His presence, but placing His vows over how I felt. I kept imagining that my room was paid, and I wept when walking outside, getting swept up in the moment of faith. Then, out of nowhere, God showed up with the blessing that covered 2 weeks in our room! I was beyond relieved! That was a $2000 return that God blessed us with for planting the “strawberry seeds of faith” and it covered our room for 2 weeks and refilled the small kitchen in the hotel.
Not only was it a refreshing, sweet miracle to get the room covered, but we ended up getting the very LAST room!
It seemed like the “strawberry season” was over, but the rewards kept coming! God sent extremely generous blessings to cover some things that I didn’t know we would need. God sent more than I hoped, and He was so good to reward the sacrifice of trust and thanksgiving.
Overnight, it was like winter here. The snow was falling and I realized that we didn’t have boots, or winter clothes. We did have our coats from last season, but everything else was lost when the car was stolen last Spring.
God knew that we would need that, and He sent the financial rescue the day before the bitter winter storm hit, and I was able to get us ready for the cold weather.
That room miracle covered us until December 6th, so far. We have a cozy room to spend the Thanksgiving holiday, and I even got us a little crock pot, so we could make a little dinner in our humble little kitchenette room. It was a sweet blessing to get us through the time of warfare, as God proved to be Soveriegn over the slander and critisism once again.
I am hoping that the Christmas miracles will be even bigger 🙂
During the many years of having to survive by God’s promises through faith, one of the biggest weapons of warfare that He has taught me to do was to give hard….beyond what is comfortable in order to overcome the battles that raged against this journey.
When you give, you are making a bold move of faith to say that you BELIEVE in God’s promises, in His ever-present love and power, and His abundance to supply all needs out of His overflwoing riches. It is a way to say that you believe that you are not of this world, and the limits of it, but that you are supported by the Almighty God’s endless flow of generous wealth.
Just as the widow gave her 2 mites and received honor and recognition for her offering to the Lord, God will also reward you with your prayers answered, with even more than you can ask, dream, or imagine. Giving is for everyone, God will always bless it…even the small amounts come back as gigantic results, when it is done with a heart of trust in God.
Giving is a form of worship, a choice to believe, a way to flow by faith, and faith without action is dead. It is an act of thanksgiving, to test His words and see how He will open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing too big to even contain. Giving brings out the sweet, heart shaped strawberries of God’s hidden love support, and the sweetness will keep on coming, long after you planted the seed.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving,
Love, Dannette
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But I will say this to encourage your generosity: the one who plants little harvests little, and the one who plants plenty harvests plenty. God is ready to overwhelm you with more blessings than you could ever imagine so that you’ll always be taken care of in every way and you’ll have more than enough to share.
The same One who has put seed into the hands of the sower and brought bread to fill our stomachs will provide and multiply the resources you invest and produce an abundant harvest from your righteous actions. You will be made rich in everything so that your generosity will spill over in every direction. Through us your generosity is at work inspiring praise and thanksgiving to God.
2 Corinthians 9: 6, 8 & 10-11
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